the NEXT TI, which is currently unreleased and might be months away.

I also won't be surprised if they try to sell it, perhaps bundled with some of the OTHER "red" tools from the next TI, before the release of the TI.

who would buy that when you can get stones for free. it's matter of time and luck which card you choose.

You'd be surprised at the antics. People are impatient sometimes and a new TI hasn't been available since 2.0. :)

Do you know that any card you pick doesn't matter in this game? Regardless of what you pick, you will always pick the same thing.

You ever noticed that the rare items tend to be the last item left during Trial Breakthrough? Or you have 4 rare stones, and you always ends up picking the coins or ramen on that list? Yeah... it doesn't matter which one you pick.

hard to read, Im always distracted by your signature and prof pic ;P

Nope. not always true. Regardless of your statement i always picked middle card for TI. I got good and bad items all the time. I just wanted 5 TI's to end asap. Sometimes I didn't bother to click and pressed esc and still got good items. Before items are nerfed, red gourd was my first item in Hard Brothers, which it was the best item in the game.

Breakthrough, also not always true either. I always went from left to right. Sometimes items are good and bad, i don't really care. I even had 2 sealed scrolls by picking from left to right. It's all RGN, can't be bothered to get my head over it. This post was last edited by Petrichor

I know for a fact that the TI rewards are given before you actually flip the card.
Let your ninja tool slot fill up, this will make the reward go to your mail instead
Watch you new mail counter/notice, it will go up after the TI BEFORE you flip the card.
Alternatively, unequip your ninja tools, you will get the "you recieved a higher quality tool" notice before you flip. Thou due to the black shroud on the bottom half of the screen, this will be hidden and might only be visible for a split second before the shroud loads in (and that, my friend, is why there is the black shroud, not because it's visually awesome, but to hide the lie)

That said, that doesn't mean it's "rigged" in anyway, it might be, but that's difficult, if possible at all, to prove. I can only provide you the proof that the picking doesn't actually matter.

I am also unable to provide proof for the breakthrough one is also predetermined like TI, but it would make perfect sense if it is.

they did with the gold gourd.

The leader of my group got 1 of those red stones from TI hard (43.2k BP) right after the 2.0 update, as far as i know it was the only one to ever drop on our server.

So they were in the game at a point.

Any chance that they will open a higher lvl Ti in the near future since the Cap lvl has been raised to 90? Maybe we will find the RED nature stones from there?

I'm hoping the new TI will drop better equip. I want to start forging in Elemental Resistance. It seems like more and more later and newer ninjas are dealing elemental damages.

Yeah, agreed. I was lucky i reforged some of my tools before they nerf the attributes of the tools recently.